[Book Launch] Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia

CA 7 #GovernancefortheFuture #publicpolicy #policymatters [Book Launch] Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia 9,014 views •Apr 6, 2021 105 0 Share Save Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy 22.5K subscribers In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled what would come to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a global development strategy involving infrastructure projects and associated financing throughout the world, including Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. While the Chinese government has framed the plan as one promoting transnational connectivity, critics and security experts see it as part of a larger strategy to achieve global dominance. Rivers of Iron examines one aspect of President Xi Jinping’s “New Era”: China’s effort to create an intercountry railway system connecting China and its seven Southeast Asian neighbors (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). This book illuminates the political strengths and weaknesses of the plan, as well as the capacity of the impacted countries to resist, shape, and even take advantage of China’s wide-reaching actions. Using frameworks from the fields of international relations and comparative politics, the authors of Rivers of Iron seek to explain how domestic politics in these eight Asian nations shaped their varying external responses and behaviors. How does China wield power using infrastructure? Do smaller states have agency? How should we understand the role of infrastructure in broader development? Does industrial policy work? And crucially, how should competing global powers respond? "Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia" is available for sale on Amazon. https://www.amazon.sg/Rivers-Iron-Rai...​ ================================================ Speakers: -- Prof. David M. Lampton, Senior Fellow, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins--SAIS -- Asst Prof. Selina Ho, Assistant Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy -- Assoc Prof. Kuik Cheng-Chwee, Associate Professor and Head of the Centre for Asian Studies, Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), National University of Malaysia (UKM) Chairperson: Prof. Khong Yuen Foong, Vice Dean (Research and Development) and Li Ka Shing Professor in Political Science, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy #GovernancefortheFuture​ #publicpolicy​ #policymatters​ ================================================ Visit us Website: http://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg​ Follow us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/nuslkyspp​ Twitter: http://twitter.com/lkysch​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lkyspp/​ LinkedIn University Page: https://www.linkedin.com/edu/school?i...​ Subscribe and click on the bell icon to be the first to watch our videos! 🔔 42 Comments Auggie Giuseppe Add a public comment... Michael Tse Michael Tse 3 days ago All countries were invited to join and USA could have and contributed finance, services, etc but they choose not to and instead just bad mouth it. 18 Ali Hassan Ali Hassan 3 days ago Excellent analysis and discussion on coming changes and maybe positive development in Asean countries. 3 Simon H Simon H 3 days ago USA Superiority over Others. How to contribute ??? That's how Big Bully Behave. Most of us experience it in our schooling time 5 Don Chong Don Chong 1 day ago (edited) The SriLanka Port Project loan, had been re-negtotiated at their request and re-structured by China 87 times. Yes 87 times, China said OK. Will there be the next. ? Nobody knows yet. The debt trap is working for SriLanka, not China. Source : https://youtu.be/P5uzxV8ub9k 6 Sean Mong Sean Mong 22 hours ago Thanks for the upload. What is the central thesis of this book? What theoretical framework are the authors using to examine this thesis? What are the conclusions that will inform our understanding of China-ASEAN relationship and China’s “developmental” diplomatic initiatives across the globe? Yuchen Liu Yuchen Liu 1 day ago (edited) Engineering challenges will be relatively easy to overcome, as proved by progress in the construction of high speed railway networks in southwest China provinces, which are full of great mountains and rivers. Political challenges will be much more difficult to tackle. 4 Matias azali Matias azali 22 hours ago Decentralize and land acquisition in Indonesia is part of local government mandate to have expedite economy. When ASEAN can have consensus for infrastructure pppp with guidance from central government then this is developing infrastructure.